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Something about the above wordy opine made me click his name to learn more about the [seems to me] parroting others' author. I was stunned to find him barely shaving. He must be an "old soul" because he's waaaaaay too young to have lived long enough to have observed all this STUFF on his own. Wonder who he's a beard for.......

More of his Brandon's branded op essays at: http://personalliberty.com/author/brandonsmithpl/

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Brandon Smith is the founder of the Alternative Market Project, an organization designed to help you find like-minded activists and preppers in your local area so that you can network and construct communities for barter and mutual aid. Join Alt-Market.com today and learn what it means to step away from the unstable mainstream system and build something better. You can contact Brandon Smith at: brandon@alt-market.com

Digging a little deeper, I uncovered this brief autobiographical sketch by BS himself. His pen name is that of a burned at the stated Netherland friar as I understand it

Brandon Smith: I had been writing for years under the pen-name “Giordano Bruno” on my first website, Neithercorp.us, which is now retired. My original purpose when I began was simply to provide as much clarity as I could for people who were feeling overwhelmed by the wash of mainstream media disinformation, especially in terms of economic analysis. This was back in 2007 at the onset of the credit collapse, and there were a lot of good writers and researchers already doing great work, but most of it was geared towards people who had a pretty intensive understanding of the common terminology. The MSM, on the other hand, was a highly concentrated example of educational dissuasion through obscure linguistics. That is, they talked big and thought small, and the rest of us were left confused and frustrated. . .

Average Americans believe economics is mind numbingly tedious, and they are right. Primarily, because mainstream financial pundits on your typical FOX News or MSNBC afternoon market show spew vocabulary particular to their field that most of us are not exposed to on a regular basis. They might as well be speaking Sumerian and posting stock quotes in Cuneiform. I really felt this was just a byproduct of the inbred banking and investment world. The complex language makes them appear knowledgeable, almost unreachably superior. In reality, once you learn the terminology of micro and macroeconomics, you begin to discover that these guys actually HAVE been talking gibberish the whole time. It wasn’t you that was incapable of understanding; it was they who were incapable of giving valid explanations. I set out in my own little way to help people realize that they could grasp finance easily, and far better than any talking head on cable television.

Until the past year, I hadn’t really considered taking the reigns of a project dedicated to organizing people around anything. I just didn’t see myself as the “frontman” type. I had written numerous articles on the concept of decoupling from the corrupt establishment system, including pieces on what I call “Alternative Markets”. I figured that launching the ideas and strategies out onto the Web would be enough. “Let some of the heavy hitters in the Liberty Movement pick them up and run with them“, I thought. Some of these guys can jump in front of a camera or a microphone and talk for hours, non-stop about any number of subjects. That just wasn’t me.

Almost out of nowhere I received an email from Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers, an organization I have a lot of respect for. Its one of the few that have gone beyond the sphere of education and produced tangible results, and whose members are willing to take substantial risks to their careers and themselves. Stewart was looking for someone to help him with solutions on the economic side of the globalist problem. We agreed that the military, even honorable oath keeping men and women, would feel compelled to participate in a martial law scenario if there was no alternative in place for Americans to utilize during a breakdown. If we were tearing each other apart for food and water, the DHS, FEMA, and NORTHCOM, would have the perfect rationalization for complete lock-down, and a lot of the troops would go along with it.

I brought up my work on decentralization, localization, alternative markets, and barter networks. He basically said “Great, let’s do it. You take the lead.” I was reticent, but Stewart is a Constitutional lawyer, and damned persuasive. It’s almost impossible to dissuade the guy. So, with the help of my good friend and web designer Josh Ogden, Alt-Market.com was born Now, armed with this additional material, yours truly MAY go back and re-read the opening post....or not.

I believe in the basic premise of grower to consumer who supports grower interdependent market woven approaches...I just don't want to line up behind some idealistic 20 year old who doesn't have the life experience to pull it off. Clicking further, I found out more about Brandon's puppetmaster...Stewart Rhodes. As much as I detest Chris Matthews, here's an enlightening interview by C.M. of S. Rhodes:


Contrast this idealistic youngblood to Catherine Austin-Fitts (Solari.com) if the reader of my post needs a "contrast/compare" model to hear where I'm coming from. I wish him well and am glad he's not out creating a new CIA snoop/Facebook social networking model....OR IS HE?...... Nothing like a 20 something, wet behind the ears infiltrator in flip-flops. A new breed of progressive community organizers, who has done research into decentralization, setting up a centralized network? hmmmmm.......

Something's "off" here. In the immortal words of T.K. from cable TV sitcom, Necessary Roughness, "....can you feel me, bro'?"


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